đź“— Want to read The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad ISBN: 9780593734636
RSS Rants
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"text": "I\u2019ve got a lot of RSS feeds in my feed reader. Some are dead feeds, some are prolific. If I don\u2019t keep up, after about a week, I\u2019ll come back to around 700 articles waiting.\n\n\n\nThe thing is, a lot of those articles are bad. Here\u2019s why:\n\n\n\n\nRSS getting treated like a notification system. If all your RSS feed does is post a one-liner saying you\u2019ve got an article up, you\u2019re wasting my time and missing the point. It\u2019s another delivery channel for your content. You wouldn\u2019t sign up people for a newsletter where you just send a message saying \u201cI\u2019ve got a new post up. Go read it.\u201d The same should apply to your RSS feed.\n\n\n\n\nRSS getting treated like an afterthought. Cool, you added some neat integration with some external service! Did you look to see what happens to those posts in your RSS feed? A lot of the time it\u2019s literally a blank post. Other times it\u2019s malformed junk missing any context of what\u2019s supposed to be there.\n\n\n\n\nRSS getting misconfigured. There\u2019s a lot of implementations of RSS feeds for different static site generators and blogging engines and CMS\u2019s out there, but a lot of them feel like they were implemented so they could add \u201cRSS support\u201d to their checklist. As a result, you get blogs where every time they make a new post, every single post on their site gets marked as updated in RSS. In most of the cases I\u2019ve bothered checking, basically the lastBuildDate is getting populated with the last date the site was built, rather than the last date that specific content was updated.\nI keep hoping some of these folks will fix their systems and approaches, but I think I\u2019m going to have to do a cull sometime soon. Depending on your RSS reader, some of this may be more noticeable than others, but for me, I\u2019ve had enough.",
"html": "<p>I\u2019ve got a lot of RSS feeds in my feed reader. Some are dead feeds, some are prolific. If I don\u2019t keep up, after about a week, I\u2019ll come back to around 700 articles waiting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is, a lot of those articles are bad. Here\u2019s why:</p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>\n<strong>RSS getting treated like a notification system</strong>. If all your RSS feed does is post a one-liner saying you\u2019ve got an article up, you\u2019re wasting my time and missing the point. It\u2019s another delivery channel for your content. You wouldn\u2019t sign up people for a newsletter where you just send a message saying \u201cI\u2019ve got a new post up. Go read it.\u201d <em>The same should apply to your RSS feed</em>.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>\n<strong>RSS getting treated like an afterthought</strong>. Cool, you added some neat integration with some external service! Did you look to see what happens to those posts in your RSS feed? A lot of the time it\u2019s literally a blank post. Other times it\u2019s malformed junk missing any context of what\u2019s supposed to be there.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>\n<strong>RSS getting misconfigured</strong>. There\u2019s a lot of implementations of RSS feeds for different static site generators and blogging engines and CMS\u2019s out there, but a lot of them feel like they were implemented so they could add \u201cRSS support\u201d to their checklist. As a result, you get blogs where every time they make a new post, <em>every single post on their site</em> gets marked as updated in RSS. In most of the cases I\u2019ve bothered checking, basically the <code>lastBuildDate</code> is getting populated with the last date the site was built, rather than the last date <em>that specific content</em> was updated.</li>\n</ol><p>I keep hoping some of these folks will fix their systems and approaches, but I think I\u2019m going to have to do a cull sometime soon. Depending on your RSS reader, some of this may be more noticeable than others, but for me, I\u2019ve had enough.</p>"
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I persevere
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Losing the Fun of Being a Newbie (and Trying to Get it Back)
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"html": "<p>There\u2019s a certain something to the work you do as a \u201cnewbie\u201d. Yes it\u2019s raw, rough around the edges, lacking polish and finesse. But it has something else too. A certain <em>joie de vivre</em>, a bit of swagger, an amusing sense of misplaced confidence in itself.</p>\n\n<p>Later work, more mature work, more refined work may be \u201cbetter\u201d in a number of ways\u2026but it can also feel studious. Stuffy. Safe. Lacking that potent energy which can be found in <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/creativity\">#creativity</a> unfettered by the baggage of lengthy experience.</p>\n\n<p>Perhaps the great artists manage to find the right balance. They constantly challenge themselves to put on a beginner\u2019s mind once again; to forget how to be great and to embrace \u201cpoverty\u201d. <strong>After all, so much of the great art is born of constraint.</strong> Little use in being able to do it all when sometimes doing very little is all you need.</p>",
"text": "There\u2019s a certain something to the work you do as a \u201cnewbie\u201d. Yes it\u2019s raw, rough around the edges, lacking polish and finesse. But it has something else too. A certain joie de vivre, a bit of swagger, an amusing sense of misplaced confidence in itself.\n\nLater work, more mature work, more refined work may be \u201cbetter\u201d in a number of ways\u2026but it can also feel studious. Stuffy. Safe. Lacking that potent energy which can be found in #creativity unfettered by the baggage of lengthy experience.\n\nPerhaps the great artists manage to find the right balance. They constantly challenge themselves to put on a beginner\u2019s mind once again; to forget how to be great and to embrace \u201cpoverty\u201d. After all, so much of the great art is born of constraint. Little use in being able to do it all when sometimes doing very little is all you need."
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Link: Abrego Garcia is Having His (First) Day in Court
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"html": "<blockquote>\n <h2><a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abrego-garcia-deportation-error-2bf259d9de88334bbdfb6d565b36e633\"></a></h2>\n\n <p>Abrego Garcia\u2019s attorneys have characterized the smuggling case as a desperate attempt to justify the mistaken deportation. The investigation was launched weeks after the U.S. government deported Abrego Garcia and following a Supreme Court order and mounting pressure to return him.</p>\n\n<p>Abrego Garcia\u2019s lawyers told a judge Friday that some government witnesses cooperated to get favors regarding their immigration status or criminal charges they were facing. A federal agent acknowledged during his testimony that one witness was living in the U.S. illegally with a criminal record and is now getting preferred status.</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I\u2019m glad Abrego Garcia is finally able to stand his ground and experience the proper unfolding of our justice system and the rule of law. While he is only one man among hundreds who has faced horrendous rights abuse at the hands of the Trump regime, <strong>I hope his case continues to resonate with the public</strong> and shine a light on what\u2019s really going on.</p>\n\n<p>While I can\u2019t say with certainty Garcia is innocent of any and all crimes, the manner in which he has been accused certainly smells as fishy as a wharf on a hot day. <strong>I don\u2019t trust the prosecution as far as I could throw \u2018em.</strong></p>",
"text": "Abrego Garcia\u2019s attorneys have characterized the smuggling case as a desperate attempt to justify the mistaken deportation. The investigation was launched weeks after the U.S. government deported Abrego Garcia and following a Supreme Court order and mounting pressure to return him.\n\nAbrego Garcia\u2019s lawyers told a judge Friday that some government witnesses cooperated to get favors regarding their immigration status or criminal charges they were facing. A federal agent acknowledged during his testimony that one witness was living in the U.S. illegally with a criminal record and is now getting preferred status.\n\n\n\nI\u2019m glad Abrego Garcia is finally able to stand his ground and experience the proper unfolding of our justice system and the rule of law. While he is only one man among hundreds who has faced horrendous rights abuse at the hands of the Trump regime, I hope his case continues to resonate with the public and shine a light on what\u2019s really going on.\n\nWhile I can\u2019t say with certainty Garcia is innocent of any and all crimes, the manner in which he has been accused certainly smells as fishy as a wharf on a hot day. I don\u2019t trust the prosecution as far as I could throw \u2018em."
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Link: Still Hungry, Still Foolish
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"html": "<blockquote>\n <h2><a href=\"https://stevejobsarchive.com/exhibits/stay-hungry-stay-foolish\"></a></h2>\n\n <p>You can\u2019t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.</p>\n\n<p>You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path. And that will make all the difference.</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>We all know Steve Jobs\u2019 commencement address at Stanford, or at least various bits from what has become one of the most famous speeches in modern history. Above is a portion I didn\u2019t remember from the last time I watched the speech in full many years ago. Thankfully, to celebrate the 20th (!!) anniversary of the speech, the <strong>Steve Jobs Archive</strong> has remastered it for HD and it\u2019s available at the link.</p>\n\n<p>I couldn\u2019t get very far through it without tearing up; I basically cried through the rest of it. Jobs\u2019 personal <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/spirituality\">#spirituality</a> and philosophy of how the realms of humanism (aka the \u201cliberal arts\u201d) and technology intersect has meant so much to me over the past couple of decades. Apparently in an interview a few years before this speech, Steve Jobs stated:</p>\n\n<p><strong>\u201cPeople sometimes forget that they are very unique and that they have very unique feelings and perspectives. The whole computer industry wants to forget about the humanist side.\u201d</strong></p>\n\n<p>I cannot think of a more appropriate perspective than right now as we watch with horror Big Tech companies across this industry utterly fail at the humanist side. <em>(Even Apple has been struggling!)</em></p>\n\n<p>And as I write this, on a day which has been unreservedly gutwrenching when it comes to domestic & geopolitical news, I find comfort in the words of Steve Jobs: <strong>\u201cSometimes life\u2019s gonna hit you in the head with a brick. Don\u2019t lose faith.\u201d</strong></p>",
"text": "You can\u2019t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.\n\nYou have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path. And that will make all the difference.\n\n\n\nWe all know Steve Jobs\u2019 commencement address at Stanford, or at least various bits from what has become one of the most famous speeches in modern history. Above is a portion I didn\u2019t remember from the last time I watched the speech in full many years ago. Thankfully, to celebrate the 20th (!!) anniversary of the speech, the Steve Jobs Archive has remastered it for HD and it\u2019s available at the link.\n\nI couldn\u2019t get very far through it without tearing up; I basically cried through the rest of it. Jobs\u2019 personal #spirituality and philosophy of how the realms of humanism (aka the \u201cliberal arts\u201d) and technology intersect has meant so much to me over the past couple of decades. Apparently in an interview a few years before this speech, Steve Jobs stated:\n\n\u201cPeople sometimes forget that they are very unique and that they have very unique feelings and perspectives. The whole computer industry wants to forget about the humanist side.\u201d\n\nI cannot think of a more appropriate perspective than right now as we watch with horror Big Tech companies across this industry utterly fail at the humanist side. (Even Apple has been struggling!)\n\nAnd as I write this, on a day which has been unreservedly gutwrenching when it comes to domestic & geopolitical news, I find comfort in the words of Steve Jobs: \u201cSometimes life\u2019s gonna hit you in the head with a brick. Don\u2019t lose faith.\u201d"
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Superpositional mood
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Please help support legal costs for an asylum seeker in our Southern California community. They were kidnapped by ICE at their court hearing: https://gofund.me/24440eda
Any amount helps and boosting appreciated. đź’›
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"text": "Please help support legal costs for an asylum seeker in our Southern California community. They were kidnapped by ICE at their court hearing: https://gofund.me/24440eda\n\nAny amount helps and boosting appreciated. \ud83d\udc9b",
"html": "<p>Please help support legal costs for an asylum seeker in our Southern California community. They were kidnapped by ICE <strong>at their court hearing</strong>: <a href=\"https://gofund.me/24440eda\">https://gofund.me/24440eda</a></p>\n\n<p>Any amount helps and boosting appreciated. \ud83d\udc9b</p>"
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Earworms for June
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"text": "On a bit of a 90s kick here. There was this whole period in the mid-90s that had an explosion of music that just hit this sort of zeitgeist, where even the songs that musically differed still had this particular DNA that you can absolutely see in hindsight. And frankly, some of the songs still feel relevant today, musically and lyrically. Anyway, hope you enjoy. (Trying to keep these to 10-12 songs \u2013 there were a lot of songs I thought about adding but opted not to.)\n\n\n\n\n\nPlaylist:\n\n\n\nButthole Surfers \u2013 Pepper\n\n\n\nCornershop \u2013 Brimful of Asha\n\n\n\nBlur \u2013 Girls and Boys\n\n\n\nCracker \u2013 Low\n\n\n\nWhale \u2013 Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe\n\n\n\nThe Breeders \u2013 Cannonball\n\n\n\nThe Toadies \u2013 Possum Kingdom\n\n\n\nFoo Fighters \u2013 Everlong\n\n\n\nSmashing Pumpkins \u2013 Bullet with Butterfly Wings\n\n\n\nRage Against the Machine \u2013 Bulls on Parade\n\n\n\nBeastie Boys \u2013 Sabotage\n\n\n\nSublime \u2013 What I Got\nGot any favorites from that era that you\u2019d add?",
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Presenting "The State of OAuth" at Identiverse
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Identiverse IPSIE panel
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A Nomad’s Pacific Northwest Travelogue, Part III
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"html": "<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/mariposta/image/upload/w_1200,c_limit,q_65/the-museum-of-flight-seattle.jpg\" /><h2>A celebration of the military-industrial complex! Also aliens, monsters, and plants made of glass!</h2>\n\n<p>Where <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/articles/a-nomads-pnw-travelogue-part-ii\">last we left our intrepid hero</a> (\u2026me\u2026that\u2019s me!), I had successfully made my way up from Oregon to Washington to stay with my best brother* Shayne and enjoy the sights and sounds of Seattle, Point Defiance, and the brilliant Irish band L\u00fanasa.</p>\n\n<p>* (Also my only brother, but don\u2019t get hung up on that minor detail!)</p>\n\n<p>Now it was Saturday, and we decided to make a day of it exploring two of the more eccentric art museums in Seattle: <a href=\"https://www.chihulygardenandglass.com/\">Chihuly Garden and Glass</a> and <a href=\"https://www.mopop.org/\">Museum of Pop Culture</a> (also known as MOPOP). These are extremely popular destinations for Seattle tourists as they are both located in the broader region known as <a href=\"https://seattlecenter.com/\">Seattle Center</a> where one other famous landmark happens to reside.</p>\n\nI think I heard someone tell me they refer to this as the \u201cSpace Needle\u201d\u2026weird<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3641.JPG\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3641.JPG\" alt=\"_DSC3641.JPG\" /></a>\n \n I tried my best to frame an interesting shot on a day with <em>terrible</em> lighting conditions\u2026<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6940.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6940.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6940.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Obligatory tourist selfie\u2026you just gotta do it<p>I <em>love</em> hanging out at the International Fountain, and <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/videos/20210917/seattle-travel-vlog-part-2\">back in 2021 I published a whole vlog episode</a> including it and other Seattle highlights on a trip with my kids.</p>\n\n<p>Anyway, we just so happened to be visiting the area on the same day as the <a href=\"https://www.seattlecenter.com/events/event-calendar/seattle-color-festival\">Seattle Color Festival</a>, which meant we were constantly passing people whose skin & clothing were all colors of the rainbow. Festive indeed!</p>\n\nWhat do you call a DJ at a Color Festival? An ROYGBIVDJ, of course!<h3>Q: What is a Chihuly</h3>\n\n<p>The proper question is <em>who</em> is Chihuly, but that merely demonstrates my ignorance going into this experience. I\u2019ll be honest, I never would have come here if it weren\u2019t for my brother\u2026and I\u2019m <em>so</em> glad he talked me into it.</p>\n\n<p>The answer is <strong>Dale Chihuly</strong>, a Tacoma-born artist who has been renowned the world over for many decades for his breathtaking glass sculptures and architectural installations. While I will go on record saying glass isn\u2019t a medium I have a particular emotional affinity for (I\u2019m much more of a stone/crystals/ceramics guy), I nevertheless found my socks getting knocked off on multiple occasions as we toured this museum.</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6947.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6947.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6947.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Truly, a garden of class \ud83d\ude32<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6942.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6942.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6942.jpg\" /></a>\n <a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6944.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6944.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6944.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Left: In real-life, the size of this takes your breath away <br />Right: Walking under this, it's like being in an aquarium except all the creatures are glass<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6950.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6950.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6950.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Perhaps elsewhere in the universe, their landscaping looks like this<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6954.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6954.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6954.jpg\" /></a>\n \n The artificial and the natural, growing side-by-side<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6956.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6956.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6956.jpg\" /></a>\n <a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6951.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6951.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6951.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Left: A tree made of glass <br />Right: My version of the photo <em>everyone</em> takes when they visit here<h3>It is Very Cold\u2026in Space!</h3>\n\n<p>After our tour of Chihuly Garden and Glass concluded we stopped to catch our breath, then made our way over to MOPOP for an experience that was\u2014shall we say\u2014completely different. As a person who is very much into the nerdier aspects of pop culture, MOPOP tickled my fancy real hard.</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6960.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6960.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6960.jpg\" /></a>\n \n A sculpture made entirely out of guitars and other musical instruments<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6962.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6962.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6962.jpg\" /></a>\n <a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7055.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7055.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7055.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Left: The dark Lord of the Sith himself, Darth Vader<br />Right: Dum-dum-dum, duh-duh-dum, duh-duh-dum. Dum-dum-dum, duh-duh-dum, duh-duh-dum<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7057.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7057.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7057.jpg\" /></a>\n <a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6965.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_6965.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6965.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Left: Captain's Log, Stardate 1672.1<br />Right: I don't like that earworm, I don't like it one bit<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7041.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7041.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7041.jpg\" /></a>\n <a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7060.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7060.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7060.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Left: The uniform of none other than Captain Jean-Luc Picard<br />Right: Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement (VISOR), plus assorted phasers<p>If horror and the more monstrous aspects of sci-fi are your jam, MOPOP has got you covered.</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7030.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7030.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7030.jpg\" /></a>\n <a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7031.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7031.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7031.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Left: A complete replica, minus the drool<br />Right: Nuke the entire site from orbit. It\u2019s the only way to be sure<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7028.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7028.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7028.jpg\" /></a>\n <a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7049.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7049.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7049.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Left: Skeletal crucifix. Gruesome, isn't it?<br />Right: Somehow I kept passing by General Roth'h'ar Sarris. Gee thanks, Omega 13!Don't lose your head\u2026<p>All right, I got a ton more pictures of all sorts of thrilling artifacts, but I don\u2019t want to bore those of you slightly lower on the nerd scale so I\u2019ll include just a couple more from the most formative movies of my childhood:</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7048.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7048.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7048.jpg\" /></a>\n <a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7050.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7050.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7050.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Left: Don't try riding that pink one over water\u2026unless you got POWAH!<br />Right: Who ya gonna call<h3>Capitol, Capitol</h3>\n\n<p>With our lengthy forays into wonders of the Seattle museum scene over (for now), Shayne and I made our way over to the Capitol Hill neighborhood for a round of drinks, a walk, dinner, another walk, and then a train ride up to the U District to meet up with one of Shayne\u2019s buddies for another round of drinks and a mesmerizing view of the northern Seattle skyline.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Full disclosure:</strong> While I think the campus of the University of Washington is truly gorgeous (<a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/videos/20191118/walking-tour-of-university-of-washington-seattle-vlog\">see this vlog episode for a walkthrough</a>), I\u2019m not a big fan of the U District. Unless you have a particular stop in mind here (like meeting up for friends), I\u2019d recommend staying clear. There are many other Seattle neighborhoods worth your attention\u2014Capitol Hill certainly being one of them!</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7078.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7078.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7078.jpg\" /></a>\n \n The best mojito I\u2019ve ever had outside of Hawaii, courtesy of <a href=\"https://www.herbandbitter.com/\">Herb & Bitter Public House</a>The pedestrian and biking improvements around Montlake are simply fantastic<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3658.JPG\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3658.JPG\" alt=\"_DSC3658.JPG\" /></a>\n \n The view from U District\u2019s rooftop bar <a href=\"https://www.themountaineeringclub.com/\">Mountaineering Club</a><h3>A Note About Shayne\u2019s Baller Music</h3>\n\n<p>I should put in a word about Shayne\u2019s musical prowess. In case you\u2019re not aware (why would you be?), we used to perform together in a Celtic band called <a href=\"https://tidal.com/browse/artist/6676411\">Distant Oaks</a> many moons ago; more recently, Shayne has been <a href=\"https://shayne.bandcamp.com/\">a prolific producer of retro-flavored electronica</a> (<a href=\"https://yarred.com/music\">as have I!</a>).</p>\n\n<p>Shayne\u2019s latest release, or I should say 15th anniversary re-release, of <strong>Curve</strong> is a truly fine work in my opinion\u2014especially <a href=\"https://shayne.bandcamp.com/track/curve-2025-new-track\">the title track</a> which is actually a brand-new composition. If that tickles your fancy, <a href=\"https://shayne.bandcamp.com/track/they-tower-above-us-shaynes-instrumental-version\">They Tower Above Us</a> is another one of my all-time favorites.</p>\n\n<h3>And Here\u2019s Where Things Get\u2026Uncomfortable</h3>\n\n<p>Now before you start to wail <em>why does EVERYTHING have to be about politics?!?!</em>, let me just say\u2026nope, sorry, I got nuthin\u2019. <strong>This section is about politics.</strong></p>\n\n<p>As a final destination during my trip, we returned once again to Seattle to complete our trifecta of museum trips by visiting <a href=\"https://www.museumofflight.org/\">The Museum of Flight</a>. Now on a superficial level I did have quite a nice time here\u2026all of the displays of historical aircraft, a large exhibit centered on rocket science and the moon landing, a tour of a to-scale Space Shuttle replica, extensive displays of planes used during the dogfights of World Wars I & II, and even a walkthrough of what was once the Nixon administration\u2019s Air Force One\u2014well it was all very thrilling.</p>\n\n<p>But upon reflection after the fact, a nagging thought in the back of my head blossomed into a full train of contemplation on the fact that the museum was essentially one giant love letter to <strong>the Military-Industrial Complex</strong>. Honestly, it was a bit odd that many of the exhibits were a backdoor into extolling the endless virtues of <strong>The Boeing Company.</strong> Perhaps that\u2019s simply a matter of convenience, as the original \u201cred barn\u201d of Boeing where early planes were manufactured is on museum property\u2014and Boeing is of course a Seattle institution.</p>\n\n<p>However it\u2019s like if you were to go to a \u201cMuseum of Shoes\u201d in the Portland, Oregon area and a huge portion of the exhibits were simply adverts for Nike. Sure, it makes sense in a way\u2026<em>but also, ick?</em></p>\n\n<p>Despite what you may have heard, airplanes are not \u201cneutral\u201d technologies. They consume vast amounts of resources. We are in the midst of a global climate catastrophe and people are increasingly questioning the merits of travel via these airborne vehicles which burn carbon-emitting fuel like crazy. Not only that, there are countless historical wrongs of Eurocentric Colonialism which were made all the easier by the use of planes. Heck, the museum even had exhibits on how the invention of flight (aka \u201cbush planes\u201d) helped foster rapid American settlement of Alaska in the early 1900s; and here I am wondering <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Natives#American_colonialism\">how the existing native populations felt about all that</a>.</p>\n\n<p>I suppose I would have similar qualms about a \u201cMuseum of Automobiles\u201d based in Detroit or whatever. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <em>Rah rah USA! USA!</em> \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (Let\u2019s not talk about how gasoline extraction, engine & tire pollution, and multi-ton metallic boxes are destroying our environment and killing children\u2026)</p>\n\n<p>All that being said, <strong>I got some cool photos.</strong> Here are a few. \ud83d\ude05</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3731.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3731.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC3731.jpg\" /></a>\n \n The O.G. plane design of the Wright Bros<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3694.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3694.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC3694.jpg\" /></a>\n \n I forget the make of this shiny specimen, but whoa boy that's a lot of chrome<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3727.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3727.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC3727.jpg\" /></a>\n \n An early example of a freight plane<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3711.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3711.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC3711.jpg\" /></a>\n \n It's mandatory that any photographic exploration of aircraft MUST include a lens flare<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3679.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3679.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC3679.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Look, I even got to go to the moon!<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7133.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7133.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7133.jpg\" /></a>\n <a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7123.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7123.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7123.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Left: Yours truly in the main hangar<br />Right: Shayne about to fly away!Aboard what was once Air Force One\u2026Nixon in China and all that<h3>Ice Cream, Green Lake, and Saying Goodbye</h3>\n\n<p>I\u2019m not often an ice cream guy, and my brother even less so, but nevertheless once we finished our museum tour I talked him into taking me to my favorite ice cream spot in Seattle, <a href=\"https://www.mollymoon.com/\">Molly Moon</a>. And the sundae I got there was even <em>better</em> than I could have anticipated!</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7177.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7177.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7177.jpg\" /></a>\n <a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7180.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7180.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7180.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Left: So happy to be back<br />Right: Disgustingly delicious<p>After this, we headed over to Green Lake for a leisurely afternoon stroll around the lake and the broader neighborhood. I\u2019d never been to this part of the city before, and I\u2019ll <em>definitely</em> be returning here again in the near future.</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3761.JPG\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3761.JPG\" alt=\"_DSC3761.JPG\" /></a>\n \n An artsy photograph of the Green Lake public library<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3763.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/_DSC3763.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC3763.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Such a dreamy locationWalking alongside the lake<p>And with that, I bid my brother Shayne a bittersweet farewell and waved goodbye to Washington. Over the next few days, I made my way back down to Portland and eventually landed once more in <strong>Eugene, Oregon</strong> to spend Spring Break weekend with my kids. I\u2019ll share a few more photos from that timeframe, and then finally tease a shot of the <em>incredible destination</em> I arrived at next (but that will have to wait for a future travelogue installment!).</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7199.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7199.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7199.jpg\" /></a>\n <a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7200.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7200.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Left: Tally ho, I'm in England!<br />Right: 5th Street Market has a fantastic courtyard<a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7225.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7225.jpg\" /></a>\n <a href=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7273.jpg\">\n <img src=\"https://intuitivefuture.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/travelogue/2025/IMG_7273.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7273.jpg\" /></a>\n \n Left: Enjoying grabbing coffee at <a href=\"http://washburnecafe.com/\">Washburne Cafe</a> in Springfield<br />Right: You\u2019ll never believe what happened next\u2026<p>Thank you once again for joining me on this rousing installment of my travel(b)logue. <strong>Stay tuned for Part IV coming in the not-so-distant future!</strong></p>\n\n\n\n <br /><p>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/nomadlifestyle\">#nomadlifestyle</a>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/washingtonexplored\">#washingtonexplored</a>\n \n </p>",
"text": "A celebration of the military-industrial complex! Also aliens, monsters, and plants made of glass!\n\nWhere last we left our intrepid hero (\u2026me\u2026that\u2019s me!), I had successfully made my way up from Oregon to Washington to stay with my best brother* Shayne and enjoy the sights and sounds of Seattle, Point Defiance, and the brilliant Irish band L\u00fanasa.\n\n* (Also my only brother, but don\u2019t get hung up on that minor detail!)\n\nNow it was Saturday, and we decided to make a day of it exploring two of the more eccentric art museums in Seattle: Chihuly Garden and Glass and Museum of Pop Culture (also known as MOPOP). These are extremely popular destinations for Seattle tourists as they are both located in the broader region known as Seattle Center where one other famous landmark happens to reside.\n\nI think I heard someone tell me they refer to this as the \u201cSpace Needle\u201d\u2026weird\n \n \n I tried my best to frame an interesting shot on a day with terrible lighting conditions\u2026\n \n \n Obligatory tourist selfie\u2026you just gotta do itI love hanging out at the International Fountain, and back in 2021 I published a whole vlog episode including it and other Seattle highlights on a trip with my kids.\n\nAnyway, we just so happened to be visiting the area on the same day as the Seattle Color Festival, which meant we were constantly passing people whose skin & clothing were all colors of the rainbow. Festive indeed!\n\nWhat do you call a DJ at a Color Festival? An ROYGBIVDJ, of course!Q: What is a Chihuly\n\nThe proper question is who is Chihuly, but that merely demonstrates my ignorance going into this experience. I\u2019ll be honest, I never would have come here if it weren\u2019t for my brother\u2026and I\u2019m so glad he talked me into it.\n\nThe answer is Dale Chihuly, a Tacoma-born artist who has been renowned the world over for many decades for his breathtaking glass sculptures and architectural installations. While I will go on record saying glass isn\u2019t a medium I have a particular emotional affinity for (I\u2019m much more of a stone/crystals/ceramics guy), I nevertheless found my socks getting knocked off on multiple occasions as we toured this museum.\n\n\n \n \n Truly, a garden of class \ud83d\ude32\n \n \n \n \n Left: In real-life, the size of this takes your breath away \nRight: Walking under this, it's like being in an aquarium except all the creatures are glass\n \n \n Perhaps elsewhere in the universe, their landscaping looks like this\n \n \n The artificial and the natural, growing side-by-side\n \n \n \n \n Left: A tree made of glass \nRight: My version of the photo everyone takes when they visit hereIt is Very Cold\u2026in Space!\n\nAfter our tour of Chihuly Garden and Glass concluded we stopped to catch our breath, then made our way over to MOPOP for an experience that was\u2014shall we say\u2014completely different. As a person who is very much into the nerdier aspects of pop culture, MOPOP tickled my fancy real hard.\n\n\n \n \n A sculpture made entirely out of guitars and other musical instruments\n \n \n \n \n Left: The dark Lord of the Sith himself, Darth Vader\nRight: Dum-dum-dum, duh-duh-dum, duh-duh-dum. Dum-dum-dum, duh-duh-dum, duh-duh-dum\n \n \n \n \n Left: Captain's Log, Stardate 1672.1\nRight: I don't like that earworm, I don't like it one bit\n \n \n \n \n Left: The uniform of none other than Captain Jean-Luc Picard\nRight: Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement (VISOR), plus assorted phasersIf horror and the more monstrous aspects of sci-fi are your jam, MOPOP has got you covered.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Left: A complete replica, minus the drool\nRight: Nuke the entire site from orbit. It\u2019s the only way to be sure\n \n \n \n \n Left: Skeletal crucifix. Gruesome, isn't it?\nRight: Somehow I kept passing by General Roth'h'ar Sarris. Gee thanks, Omega 13!Don't lose your head\u2026All right, I got a ton more pictures of all sorts of thrilling artifacts, but I don\u2019t want to bore those of you slightly lower on the nerd scale so I\u2019ll include just a couple more from the most formative movies of my childhood:\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Left: Don't try riding that pink one over water\u2026unless you got POWAH!\nRight: Who ya gonna callCapitol, Capitol\n\nWith our lengthy forays into wonders of the Seattle museum scene over (for now), Shayne and I made our way over to the Capitol Hill neighborhood for a round of drinks, a walk, dinner, another walk, and then a train ride up to the U District to meet up with one of Shayne\u2019s buddies for another round of drinks and a mesmerizing view of the northern Seattle skyline.\n\nFull disclosure: While I think the campus of the University of Washington is truly gorgeous (see this vlog episode for a walkthrough), I\u2019m not a big fan of the U District. Unless you have a particular stop in mind here (like meeting up for friends), I\u2019d recommend staying clear. There are many other Seattle neighborhoods worth your attention\u2014Capitol Hill certainly being one of them!\n\n\n \n \n The best mojito I\u2019ve ever had outside of Hawaii, courtesy of Herb & Bitter Public HouseThe pedestrian and biking improvements around Montlake are simply fantastic\n \n \n The view from U District\u2019s rooftop bar Mountaineering ClubA Note About Shayne\u2019s Baller Music\n\nI should put in a word about Shayne\u2019s musical prowess. In case you\u2019re not aware (why would you be?), we used to perform together in a Celtic band called Distant Oaks many moons ago; more recently, Shayne has been a prolific producer of retro-flavored electronica (as have I!).\n\nShayne\u2019s latest release, or I should say 15th anniversary re-release, of Curve is a truly fine work in my opinion\u2014especially the title track which is actually a brand-new composition. If that tickles your fancy, They Tower Above Us is another one of my all-time favorites.\n\nAnd Here\u2019s Where Things Get\u2026Uncomfortable\n\nNow before you start to wail why does EVERYTHING have to be about politics?!?!, let me just say\u2026nope, sorry, I got nuthin\u2019. This section is about politics.\n\nAs a final destination during my trip, we returned once again to Seattle to complete our trifecta of museum trips by visiting The Museum of Flight. Now on a superficial level I did have quite a nice time here\u2026all of the displays of historical aircraft, a large exhibit centered on rocket science and the moon landing, a tour of a to-scale Space Shuttle replica, extensive displays of planes used during the dogfights of World Wars I & II, and even a walkthrough of what was once the Nixon administration\u2019s Air Force One\u2014well it was all very thrilling.\n\nBut upon reflection after the fact, a nagging thought in the back of my head blossomed into a full train of contemplation on the fact that the museum was essentially one giant love letter to the Military-Industrial Complex. Honestly, it was a bit odd that many of the exhibits were a backdoor into extolling the endless virtues of The Boeing Company. Perhaps that\u2019s simply a matter of convenience, as the original \u201cred barn\u201d of Boeing where early planes were manufactured is on museum property\u2014and Boeing is of course a Seattle institution.\n\nHowever it\u2019s like if you were to go to a \u201cMuseum of Shoes\u201d in the Portland, Oregon area and a huge portion of the exhibits were simply adverts for Nike. Sure, it makes sense in a way\u2026but also, ick?\n\nDespite what you may have heard, airplanes are not \u201cneutral\u201d technologies. They consume vast amounts of resources. We are in the midst of a global climate catastrophe and people are increasingly questioning the merits of travel via these airborne vehicles which burn carbon-emitting fuel like crazy. Not only that, there are countless historical wrongs of Eurocentric Colonialism which were made all the easier by the use of planes. Heck, the museum even had exhibits on how the invention of flight (aka \u201cbush planes\u201d) helped foster rapid American settlement of Alaska in the early 1900s; and here I am wondering how the existing native populations felt about all that.\n\nI suppose I would have similar qualms about a \u201cMuseum of Automobiles\u201d based in Detroit or whatever. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Rah rah USA! USA! \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (Let\u2019s not talk about how gasoline extraction, engine & tire pollution, and multi-ton metallic boxes are destroying our environment and killing children\u2026)\n\nAll that being said, I got some cool photos. Here are a few. \ud83d\ude05\n\n\n \n \n The O.G. plane design of the Wright Bros\n \n \n I forget the make of this shiny specimen, but whoa boy that's a lot of chrome\n \n \n An early example of a freight plane\n \n \n It's mandatory that any photographic exploration of aircraft MUST include a lens flare\n \n \n Look, I even got to go to the moon!\n \n \n \n \n Left: Yours truly in the main hangar\nRight: Shayne about to fly away!Aboard what was once Air Force One\u2026Nixon in China and all thatIce Cream, Green Lake, and Saying Goodbye\n\nI\u2019m not often an ice cream guy, and my brother even less so, but nevertheless once we finished our museum tour I talked him into taking me to my favorite ice cream spot in Seattle, Molly Moon. And the sundae I got there was even better than I could have anticipated!\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Left: So happy to be back\nRight: Disgustingly deliciousAfter this, we headed over to Green Lake for a leisurely afternoon stroll around the lake and the broader neighborhood. I\u2019d never been to this part of the city before, and I\u2019ll definitely be returning here again in the near future.\n\n\n \n \n An artsy photograph of the Green Lake public library\n \n \n Such a dreamy locationWalking alongside the lakeAnd with that, I bid my brother Shayne a bittersweet farewell and waved goodbye to Washington. Over the next few days, I made my way back down to Portland and eventually landed once more in Eugene, Oregon to spend Spring Break weekend with my kids. I\u2019ll share a few more photos from that timeframe, and then finally tease a shot of the incredible destination I arrived at next (but that will have to wait for a future travelogue installment!).\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Left: Tally ho, I'm in England!\nRight: 5th Street Market has a fantastic courtyard\n \n \n \n \n Left: Enjoying grabbing coffee at Washburne Cafe in Springfield\nRight: You\u2019ll never believe what happened next\u2026Thank you once again for joining me on this rousing installment of my travel(b)logue. Stay tuned for Part IV coming in the not-so-distant future!\n\n\n\n \n\n \n #nomadlifestyle\n \n #washingtonexplored"
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Tools, 2025 Edition
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"text": "Partly for my own edification, and because I\u2019ve found similar posts interesting, I thought I\u2019d share what tools and tech stack I\u2019m using.\n\n\n\n Continue reading \u201cTools, 2025 Edition\u201d",
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Link: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is Back on American Soil, Facing Bogus Charges
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"html": "<blockquote>\n <h2><a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kilmar-abrego-garcia-human-smuggling-deportation-tennessee-f8ded5881c1cedd10c725e7b1cca79bc\"></a></h2>\n\n <p>Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who visited Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, said his return to the U.S. was long overdue.</p>\n\n<p>\u201cAs I have repeatedly said, this is not about the man, it\u2019s about his constitutional rights \u2013 and the rights of all,\u201d the Maryland Democrat said in a statement. \u201cThe Administration will now have to make its case in the court of law, as it should have all along.\u201d</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>So\u2026whatever happened to Pam \u201cAbrego Garcia is never ever ever coming back\u201d Bondi\u2019s <a href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5251491-pam-bondi-kilmar-abrego-garcia-return/\">false bravado</a>? <strong>You sure look real competent right about now!</strong></p>\n\n<p>Oh and those trumped-up charges of human trafficking? I expect them to get tossed out. I totally believe Garcia is innocent. <strong>At least he will now have his day in court</strong> which is the bare minimum any of us were ever asking for.<br /><a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/politics\">#politics</a></p>",
"text": "Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who visited Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, said his return to the U.S. was long overdue.\n\n\u201cAs I have repeatedly said, this is not about the man, it\u2019s about his constitutional rights \u2013 and the rights of all,\u201d the Maryland Democrat said in a statement. \u201cThe Administration will now have to make its case in the court of law, as it should have all along.\u201d\n\n\n\nSo\u2026whatever happened to Pam \u201cAbrego Garcia is never ever ever coming back\u201d Bondi\u2019s false bravado? You sure look real competent right about now!\n\nOh and those trumped-up charges of human trafficking? I expect them to get tossed out. I totally believe Garcia is innocent. At least he will now have his day in court which is the bare minimum any of us were ever asking for.\n#politics"
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Wrote a few words about the upcoming end of Glitch project hosting and missed opportunities. Then wrote way more words about a few specific personal projects that got their start there.
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Glitched out
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"text": "Glitch.com was, according to their homepage:\n\n[\u2026] the friendly place where everyone builds the web. Start a new blog, play with React, or build new worlds with WebXR.\n\nOthers have said a lot more than I could about the history of Glitch. I\u2019m here\nto deliver a eulog-\nWell, uh, actually others have had a lot to say about that, as well.\n\nImportant changes are coming to Glitch - official announcement post.\n\non \u2018important changes coming to glitch\u2019 - Jenn Schiffer, former director of community at Glitch and kickass candle maker.\nand many, more.\nGlitch project hosting is shutting down in about a month, at which point any\nhosted projects will stop working. After that, users will be able to download\narchives of their own projects for about a year. Between now and then, users can\nset up redirects to forward requests to your project to a new URL.\nOver the past few weeks, I\u2019ve been tuning in to Jenn\u2019s YouTube streams\nwhere she is working to triage, archive, and in some cases re-home hundreds of\nprojects in her Glitch account.\nInspired by Jenn\u2019s journey, as well as this RIP Glitch directory at ribo.zone,\nI\u2019ve archived all my own Glitch projects, and want to talk about them below.\nI\u2019m an idiosyncratic person, so please don\u2019t treat any of the following as\nadvice. If you\u2019re looking for the best ways to re-home your own Glitch projects,\nplease check out the Project migration discussion in the Glitch support forums.\nHonestly? Don\u2019t even feel like you have to read any of the below. You are free\nto skip to the end or do anything else more pressing.\nLive your life!\nMy surviving projects\nsteady-sundial - A webring for IndieWeb-enabled sites. Find the latest at https://\ud83d\udd78\ud83d\udc8d.ws/\n\nAh, the \ud83d\udd78\ud83d\udc8d IndieWeb Webring!\nThis began almost as a dare at IndieWeb Summit 2018.\nAs I remember it, Doug Beal brought up webrings and the\nidea of doing one for IndieWeb sites, and brainstormed the emoji domain. I made\nthe mistake of actually registering \ud83d\udd78\ufe0f\ud83d\udc8d.ws which, oops, made me obligated to\nwork on it.\nWe jammed on ways it could work over the course of the unconference day. One\nearly idea (that could still be interesting for someone to try!) was to have\nfolks join by the webring by posting some kind of \u201cI am a member of the IndieWeb\nwebring\u201d post to their own site, then sending a Webmention.\nAs long as your post stayed up, you\u2019d stay in the ring.\nOne decision that seemed quite fun at the time, but that I would soon come to\nregret, was the idea to use emoji as identifiers. Putting these identifiers in\nwebring navigation URLs would make it easy to tell where webring visitors were\ncoming from. In theory. I ended up doing a whole write-up on why emoji IDs\nwere a bad idea.\nAnyway, I jammed out a quick demo on Glitch at the Summit\u2019s Making Day, got\ngreat feedback, intermittently kept working at it, and so on. You can kind of\nfollow this history via the update posts on the webring homepage.\nWhile the webring lived on Glitch for multiple years, I eventually re-wrote it\nin PHP and re-hosted it. Viva la webring!\nHere\u2019s the original steady-sundial source.\nAnd of course the source for the new version, which I call gem-diamond.\nYou know, the ring salesman.\nsticky-scribbles - Make an SVG suitable for pen plotting with simple scribbles and text with Hershey fonts.\n\nPart of the August 2024 Glitch community \u201c#justdraw\u201d jam. I cleaned up a 2011\nproject from when I was really into pen plotting on my MakerBot Cupcake CNC.\nI\u2019ve got a whole post about Stick Scribbles,\nincluding where to find it\u2019s new home (and the source).\ntrite-elderberry\nTechnically this lives on as \u201cStickPix\u201d - a\nproof of concept for putting Snapchat-style stickers on photos. Hacked up during\nIndieWebCamp NYC 2019, based on a demo by\nAli Spittel.\nI never got around to adding the IndieWeb bits, and it basically didn\u2019t work on\nmy iPhone, so I abandoned it.\nThis fit into a larger idea I had that goes something like: \u201cMy friends say they\nuse Snapchat and Instagram because it has filters. If they could post to their\nown websites with filters, would they do that instead?\u201d\nHowever, it turns out I wasn\u2019t ready to really tackle all that. And I now think\nit\u2019s a mistake to just copy big social media features.\nMy retired projects\ngarrulous-smile - A Micropub client for reaction GIFs??\n\nAnother \u201cmy friends like this feature on their social apps\u201d special. This\nproject, eventually named \u201cKapowski\u201d, let you post \u201creply GIFs\u201d between\nIndieWeb-powered sites.\nLooks like I introduced this at a Baltimore Homebrew Website Club meetup in\nApril of 2018.\nThis lived on Glitch for quite some time. Over the years I updated it to switch\nthe \u201cGIF provider\u201d from GIPHY to gfycat when Facebook bought GIPHY. Later, I\nported it to PHP as part of my kick to consolidate all my IndieWeb tools in one\nplace with more shared code.\nWhen gfycat shut down in 2023, I decided to shut it down rather than switch to\nanother provider. I have a longer writeup about Kapowski on the IndieWeb wiki.\nPart of me would like to bring it back! GIFs are cringe now, or whatever, but\nI think it\u2019s fun to communicate in images and video. And these are our\nwebsites, so we can do what we want!\nAlternative GIF-hosting sites exist that could power it in terms of search and\ncontent, but as of the time I did this research they were all truly awful about\nproviding descriptive text for folks who need an alternative to the visuals,\nreal .gif files actually aren\u2019t great for sharing around the web,\na video-loop based alternative that works across sites would need a lot of work\nto develop.\nOh, nobody used it. \ud83c\udfdc\ufe0f\nOkay, I used it to post like one reaction GIF one time,\nbut I\u2019m only aware of a couple of people besides me who even tried, because I\nasked them to test it out. \ud83d\ude0e\nThe PHP version can be found at kapowski.bayside.pub,\nincluding links to the PHP source.\nHere\u2019s an archive of garrulous-smile\nbecause hey why not.\nI had remix of this project, \u201cpeppermint-author\u201d, where I started adding a\nfeature to include an alt text description along with with the GIF reply, but I\nwasn\u2019t satisfied with it and don\u2019t remember sharing it with anyone.\nveil-mirror\nAn IndieAuth device flow proxy for Microsub/Micropub\nBased on Aaron Parecki\u2019s Device-Flow-Proxy-Server,\nthis project let you sign into a service with IndieAuth similar to the way a TV\napp would have you sign into your HBO Max account.\nIn my case, I built it to make an IndieWeb-powered photo frame from an Adafruit\nPyPortal.\nI feel a little haunted by the closing \u201cCode to come!\u201d in that post.\nThe OAuth 2 Device Flow\nis actually rad in a lot of contexts. While it has been rare for me to use\nthis proxy, it usually saves me several minutes of juggling other ways to get\na token for use with command line scripts and embedded devices.\nfanatical-wound - A toy Micropub client for managing syndication and mp-syndicate-to properties for posts.\n\nThe goal for this one was to make it easier to post on my own site then\nsyndicate elsewhere, and then receive replies back\nfrom those silo\u2019s using brid.gy\u2019s ability (at the time) to\nbackfeed likes, replies, etc. from Twitter, Facebook, and other social silos\nto my post.\nWhy? Because here was the manual process to post on my site and then share it\nout on Twitter and Facebook:\nWrite a post for my site. Wait for my site to publish it up so I have a URL.\nMake the syndicated versions of that post on FB, bird site, etc., being sure\nto link back to my post.\nManually edit my post to add the new URLs to the syndicated copies on hell\nsite, Zuck site, etc. Brid.gy uses these links to know where to post the\nbackfeed comments, reactions, etc.\nWithout a tool, I was only able to do the last step from a computer with access\nto the source files for my site. This tool was planned to use Micropub\nto edit the syndication URLs.\nThe idea was pretty simple, but I got caught up in how much boilerplate I felt\nwas required to set up a basic Micropub client with IndieAuth support. I ended\nup getting bogged down thinking about how to abstract all the common stuff with\nIndieWeb building blocks I had been doing on Glitch to this point into something\nreusable. I never even finished this.\nOh, also Facebook and Twitter shut down their APIs so Bridgy couldn\u2019t backfeed\ncomments anymore. Also-also I deleted all my silo accounts. So this became a\nmoot point. \ud83d\udeae\nLittle IndieWeb endpoints\nWhat\u2019s that? I mentioned IndieAuth above but never explained it?? Thank you for\ncalling me in. IndieAuth is basically a way to\nsign in to apps and websites using your personal domain (or personal website URL)\nas your identity. One of the cooler things about IndieAuth is that you decide\nwhat service will handle the actual bits about \u201cconfirming you are you\u201d.\nI set up a couple of these IndieAuth authorization endpoints on Glitch, quick\nand dirty Javascript knock-offs of Inklings-io/selfauth:\nbefitting-price - handled sign-in for ghostparty.today,\nthe website of my favorite cult-based improv project. (befitting-price source\ncode archive)\nindieweb-nyc-auth - was intended to let folks other than me post events to\nindieweb.nyc in the before times. We haven\u2019t had\nany IndieWeb Camps or Homebrew Website Clubs in NYC in a while, but if we did,\nwe\u2019d use the meetable site where that domain now redirects.\nAt one point I was enamored with the idea of making it easy for folks to set up\na site on Neocities, then power them up with IndieWeb\nbuilding blocks to let them use existing tools. The GHOST PARTY site above is\nan example of that (nitty-gritties Neocities details here.\nprism-dirt - A micropub endpoint for Neocities sites?? - this provided the\nactual Micropub support for the GHOST PARTY\nsite. (prism-dirt source code archive)\nsapphire-sulky-clover - looks like the start of me making a more generic\nMicropub endpoint with the goal of encouraging others to remix it for their\nown Neocities cites.\nWhat\u2019s that? I mentioned Micropub but never explained it??? Whew. Well,\nMicropub is a protocol for posting, updating,\nand deleting content from your site. It uses IndieAuth to verify that you are\nallowed to do the posting / updating / deleting. I, uh, hope that helps?\nRemixes of other people\u2019s stuff\noutrageous-coral - Traces bitmap images of crease patterns to create a cuttable SVG file.\nBy Dr. Tiffany Tseng. Seems really cool for\npapercraft and patterns for sewing!\nlemon-spark-fairy - A demo using P5.js and googlecreativelab/creatability-components\nto do some kind of nose-tracking. Probably a demo someone sent me that I\nremixed in order to hang on to a copy.\nrich-tuna - An example IndieWeb website using my micropub-endpoint library.\nAn building block for making IndieWeb-powered sites on Glitch by grant.codes.\nelite-cornet-1 - An example IndieWeb website using my postr library. Is\nanother Grant project. Part of his impressive PostrChild\nset of IndieWeb / Micropub tools!\n\nfantasy-slime - I tweet new blog posts for qubyte.codes. I check for them when a webhook is called by netlify.\nAnother tool for someone to POSSE posts out from their own site. Can you tell\nI flirted with becoming a collector of IndieWeb-related projects on Glitch?\nbejewled-burly-penguin - A proof-of-concept for running a PHP app on Glitch!\noutrageous-wooded-octagon - At XOXO 2024 the octothorp.es\nfolks published this as an example project. Octothorpes kind of strik me like\na webring meets decentralized forums with an alternate reality version of\nWebmentions.\nwise-broad-microraptor - A WebSocket starter app using the ws node.js library.\nI think websockets are magic so I collect people\u2019s projects for using them\nyet have only used them in a couple of projects! Scandal!\njuniper-magic-bream - This is a basic example of AR camera using aframe-ar with experimental browsers for ARKit and ARCore.\nSpeaking of magic! A-Frame is so dang cool. I really\nought to make a project with it someday!\nThere were a few others, but I decided they were not worth keeping or mentioning\nhere.\nAre you still there?\nHahaha, wow, okay, I didn\u2019t expect to have so much to say about so many of these\nprojects. Most of them weren\u2019t mine. Of those that were mine, most of those were\nonly experiments. By the time of the Glitch shutdown announcement, all but one\nof my few active projects that started on Glitch had already been moved to other\nhosting.\nBut I think that even this small realization, and this small collection of\nprojects, hints at the magnitude of what the web is losing with the shutdown of\nGlitch project hosting.\nGlitch made it possible to start making \u201creal\u201d apps on the web, right away,\nwith no credit card requirement and no need to install a bunch of tools on your\nown computer.\nWith the remix system, you never had to start from a blank page. You could take\na working example, make it yours, learn how it works, and change it as you like.\nAs you did more, you learned more. As you learned more, you were capable of\ndoing more.\nAnd if you got stuck? The Glitch editor, right in your browser, allowed live\ncollaboration! For a time there was even an ask-for-help feature where a\nstranger could come and help you with your project! And you could thank them\nin a way that showed up on their community profile!\nAs a long-time IndieWeb contributor, I\u2019m well aware that the IndieWeb\ncommunity has a perception of being exclusively \u201cfor developers\u201d. While I didn\u2019t\nhave the resources to make it happen, I had big hopes that Glitch could be a\nway to get a fully-functional IndieWeb site,\nwith no code required to get started, but everything open and available as you\nlearned and leveled up. I don\u2019t think the thing I was dreaming of could be\npossible anywhere but Glitch.\nClearly I have a major soft spot in my heart for Glitch. It took real\nthoughtfulness and care to build a platform to support a powerful learning\ncommunity with no BS enterprise upsells. I know it wasn\u2019t without its issues,\nbut I think it\u2019s safe to say that the world was much better with Glitch, and\nwill be poorer without it.\nMy congratulations and thanks (and condolences) to all the folks that made Glitch possible.\nOk. I\u2019m not crying, you\u2019re crying.\nShut up!\n\n\t\t\n\tSee you, space cowboy \ud83d\udc1f\ud83d\udc1f",
"html": "<p><a href=\"https://glitch.com/\">Glitch.com</a> was, according to their homepage:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[\u2026] the friendly place where everyone builds the web. Start a new blog, play with React, or build new worlds with WebXR.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Others have said a lot more than I could about the history of Glitch. I\u2019m here\nto deliver a eulog-</p>\n<p>Well, uh, actually others have had a lot to say about that, as well.</p>\n<ul><li>\n<a href=\"https://blog.glitch.com/post/changes-are-coming-to-glitch/\">Important changes are coming to Glitch</a> - official announcement post.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://livelaugh.blog/posts/on-important-changes-coming-to-glitch/\">on \u2018important changes coming to glitch\u2019</a> - <a href=\"https://jennschiffer.com/\">Jenn Schiffer</a>, former director of community at Glitch and kickass candle maker.</li>\n<li>and <a href=\"https://blog.keith.is/blog/the-end-of-glitch-even-though-they-say-it-isnt/\">many</a>, <a href=\"https://pketh.org/bye-glitch.html\">more</a>.</li>\n</ul><p>Glitch project hosting is shutting down in about a month, at which point any\nhosted projects will stop working. After that, users will be able to download\narchives of their own projects for about a year. Between now and then, users can\n<a href=\"https://support.glitch.com/t/redirect-your-glitch-me-subdomains/75995\">set up redirects to forward requests to your project to a new URL</a>.</p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, I\u2019ve been tuning in to <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@jennschiffer\">Jenn\u2019s YouTube streams</a>\nwhere she is working to triage, archive, and in some cases re-home hundreds of\nprojects in her Glitch account.</p>\n<p>Inspired by Jenn\u2019s journey, as well as this <a href=\"https://ribo.zone/glitch/\">RIP Glitch directory at ribo.zone</a>,\nI\u2019ve archived all my own Glitch projects, and want to talk about them below.</p>\n<p>I\u2019m an idiosyncratic person, so please don\u2019t treat any of the following as\nadvice. If you\u2019re looking for the best ways to re-home your own Glitch projects,\nplease check out the <a href=\"https://support.glitch.com/t/project-migration-discussion/75662\">Project migration discussion in the Glitch support forums</a>.</p>\n<p>Honestly? Don\u2019t even feel like you have to read any of the below. You are free\nto <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/posts/#are-you-still-there\">skip to the end</a> or do anything else more pressing.\nLive your life!</p>\n<h2>My surviving projects</h2>\n<h3>steady-sundial - <em>A webring for IndieWeb-enabled sites. Find the latest at https://\ud83d\udd78\ud83d\udc8d.ws/</em>\n</h3>\n<p>Ah, the <a href=\"https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/\">\ud83d\udd78\ud83d\udc8d IndieWeb Webring</a>!</p>\n<p>This began almost as a dare at <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2018\">IndieWeb Summit 2018</a>.\nAs I remember it, <a href=\"https://dougbeal.com/\">Doug Beal</a> brought up webrings and the\nidea of doing one for IndieWeb sites, and brainstormed the emoji domain. I made\nthe mistake of actually registering \ud83d\udd78\ufe0f\ud83d\udc8d.ws which, oops, made me obligated to\nwork on it.</p>\n<p>We jammed on ways it could work over the course of the unconference day. One\nearly idea (that could still be interesting for someone to try!) was to have\nfolks join by the webring by posting some kind of \u201cI am a member of the IndieWeb\nwebring\u201d post to their own site, then sending a <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Webmention\">Webmention</a>.\nAs long as your post stayed up, you\u2019d stay in the ring.</p>\n<p>One decision that seemed quite fun at the time, but that I would soon come to\nregret, was the idea to use emoji as identifiers. Putting these identifiers in\nwebring navigation URLs would make it easy to tell where webring visitors were\ncoming from. In theory. I ended up doing a whole write-up on <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2023/04/26/bad-web-dev-ideas-emoji-as-ids-in-urls/\">why emoji IDs\nwere a bad idea</a>.</p>\n<p>Anyway, I jammed out a quick demo on Glitch at the Summit\u2019s Making Day, got\ngreat feedback, intermittently kept working at it, and so on. You can kind of\nfollow this history via the update posts on the webring homepage.</p>\n<p>While the webring lived on Glitch for multiple years, I eventually re-wrote it\nin PHP and re-hosted it. Viva la webring!</p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the <a href=\"https://git.schmarty.net/schmarty/steady-sundial\">original steady-sundial source</a>.</p>\n<p>And of course the source for the new version, which I call <a href=\"https://git.schmarty.net/schmarty/gem-diamond\">gem-diamond</a>.\nYou know, the <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwRBhkq8TOw\">ring salesman</a>.</p>\n<h3>sticky-scribbles - <em>Make an SVG suitable for pen plotting with simple scribbles and text with Hershey fonts.</em>\n</h3>\n<p>Part of the August 2024 Glitch community \u201c#justdraw\u201d jam. I cleaned up a 2011\nproject from when I was really into pen plotting on my MakerBot Cupcake CNC.</p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got a whole <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2024/08/17/jamming-on-a-13-year-old-sketchy-sketch/\">post about Stick Scribbles</a>,\nincluding where to find it\u2019s new home (and the source).</p>\n<h3>trite-elderberry</h3>\n<p>Technically this lives on as <a href=\"https://schmarty.net/stickpix\">\u201cStickPix\u201d</a> - a\nproof of concept for putting Snapchat-style stickers on photos. Hacked up during\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2019/NYC\">IndieWebCamp NYC 2019</a>, based on a <a href=\"https://dev.to/aspittel/facial-recognition-in-javascript-using-trackingjs-3l7\">demo by\nAli Spittel</a>.\nI never got around to adding the IndieWeb bits, and it basically didn\u2019t work on\nmy iPhone, so I abandoned it.</p>\n<p>This fit into a larger idea I had that goes something like: \u201cMy friends say they\nuse Snapchat and Instagram because it has filters. If they could post to their\nown websites with filters, would they do that instead?\u201d</p>\n<p>However, it turns out I wasn\u2019t ready to really tackle all that. And I now think\nit\u2019s a mistake to just copy big social media features.</p>\n<h2>My retired projects</h2>\n<h3>garrulous-smile - <em>A Micropub client for reaction GIFs??</em>\n</h3>\n<p>Another \u201cmy friends like this feature on their social apps\u201d special. This\nproject, eventually named \u201cKapowski\u201d, let you post \u201creply GIFs\u201d between\nIndieWeb-powered sites.</p>\n<p>Looks like I introduced this at a <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2018/04/10/hwc-baltimore-2018-04-10-wrap-up/\">Baltimore Homebrew Website Club meetup in\nApril of 2018</a>.</p>\n<p>This lived on Glitch for quite some time. Over the years I updated it to switch\nthe \u201cGIF provider\u201d from GIPHY to gfycat when Facebook bought GIPHY. Later, I\nported it to PHP as part of my kick to consolidate all my IndieWeb tools in one\nplace with more shared code.</p>\n<p>When gfycat shut down in 2023, I decided to shut it down rather than switch to\nanother provider. I have a longer writeup about <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Kapowski\">Kapowski on the IndieWeb wiki</a>.</p>\n<p>Part of me would like to bring it back! GIFs are cringe now, or whatever, but\nI think it\u2019s fun to communicate in images and video. And these are <em>our</em>\nwebsites, so we can do what we want!</p>\n<p>Alternative GIF-hosting sites exist that could power it in terms of search and\ncontent, but as of the time I did this research they were all truly awful about\nproviding descriptive text for folks who need an alternative to the visuals,\nreal <code>.gif</code> files actually aren\u2019t great for sharing around the web,\na video-loop based alternative that works across sites would need a lot of work\nto develop.</p>\n<p>Oh, <em>nobody used it</em>. \ud83c\udfdc\ufe0f</p>\n<p>Okay, I used it to post <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2018/04/14/145815/\">like one reaction GIF one time</a>,\nbut I\u2019m only aware of a couple of people besides me who even tried, because I\nasked them to test it out. \ud83d\ude0e</p>\n<p>The PHP version can be found at <a href=\"https://kapowski.bayside.pub/\">kapowski.bayside.pub</a>,\nincluding links to the PHP source.</p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an <a href=\"https://git.schmarty.net/schmarty/garrulous-smile\">archive of garrulous-smile</a>\nbecause hey why not.</p>\n<p>I had remix of this project, \u201cpeppermint-author\u201d, where I started adding a\nfeature to include an alt text description along with with the GIF reply, but I\nwasn\u2019t satisfied with it and don\u2019t remember sharing it with anyone.</p>\n<h3>veil-mirror</h3>\n<p><em>An IndieAuth device flow proxy for Microsub/Micropub</em></p>\n<p>Based on <a href=\"https://github.com/aaronpk/Device-Flow-Proxy-Server\">Aaron Parecki\u2019s Device-Flow-Proxy-Server</a>,\nthis project let you sign into a service with IndieAuth similar to the way a TV\napp would have you sign into your HBO Max account.</p>\n<p>In my case, I built it to make an <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2019/03/29/153239/\">IndieWeb-powered photo frame from an Adafruit\nPyPortal</a>.</p>\n<p>I feel a little haunted by the closing \u201cCode to come!\u201d in that post.</p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/02/19/add-oauth-device-flow-to-any-server\">OAuth 2 Device Flow</a>\nis actually rad in a lot of contexts. While it has been <em>rare</em> for me to use\nthis proxy, it usually saves me several minutes of juggling other ways to get\na token for use with command line scripts and embedded devices.</p>\n<h3>fanatical-wound - <em>A toy Micropub client for managing syndication and mp-syndicate-to properties for posts.</em>\n</h3>\n<p>The goal for this one was to make it easier to <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/POSSE\">post on my own site then\nsyndicate elsewhere</a>, and then receive replies back\nfrom those silo\u2019s using <a href=\"https://brid.gy/\">brid.gy</a>\u2019s ability (at the time) to\nbackfeed likes, replies, etc. from Twitter, Facebook, and other social silos\nto my post.</p>\n<p>Why? Because here was the manual process to post on my site and then share it\nout on Twitter and Facebook:</p>\n<ol><li>Write a post for my site. Wait for my site to publish it up so I have a URL.</li>\n<li>Make the syndicated versions of that post on FB, bird site, etc., being sure\nto link back to my post.</li>\n<li>Manually edit my post to add the new URLs to the syndicated copies on hell\nsite, Zuck site, etc. Brid.gy uses these links to know where to post the\nbackfeed comments, reactions, etc.</li>\n</ol><p>Without a tool, I was only able to do the last step from a computer with access\nto the source files for my site. This tool was planned to use Micropub\nto edit the syndication URLs.</p>\n<p>The idea was pretty simple, but I got caught up in how much <em>boilerplate</em> I felt\nwas required to set up a basic Micropub client with IndieAuth support. I ended\nup getting bogged down thinking about how to abstract all the common stuff with\nIndieWeb building blocks I had been doing on Glitch to this point into something\nreusable. I never even finished this.</p>\n<p>Oh, also Facebook and Twitter shut down their APIs so Bridgy couldn\u2019t backfeed\ncomments anymore. Also-also I deleted all my silo accounts. So this became a\nmoot point. \ud83d\udeae</p>\n<h3>Little IndieWeb endpoints</h3>\n<p>What\u2019s that? I mentioned IndieAuth above but never explained it?? Thank you for\ncalling me in. <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth\">IndieAuth</a> is basically a way to\nsign in to apps and websites using your personal domain (or personal website URL)\nas your identity. One of the cooler things about IndieAuth is that <em>you</em> decide\nwhat service will handle the actual bits about \u201cconfirming you are you\u201d.</p>\n<p>I set up a couple of these IndieAuth authorization endpoints on Glitch, quick\nand dirty Javascript knock-offs of <a href=\"https://github.com/Inklings-io/selfauth\">Inklings-io/selfauth</a>:</p>\n<ul><li>befitting-price - handled sign-in for <a href=\"https://ghostparty.today/\">ghostparty.today</a>,\nthe website of my favorite cult-based improv project. (<a href=\"https://git.schmarty.net/schmarty/befitting-price\">befitting-price source\ncode archive</a>)</li>\n<li>indieweb-nyc-auth - was intended to let folks other than me post events to\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.nyc/\">indieweb.nyc</a> in the <em>before times</em>. We haven\u2019t had\nany IndieWeb Camps or Homebrew Website Clubs in NYC in a while, but if we did,\nwe\u2019d use the meetable site where that domain now redirects.</li>\n</ul><p>At one point I was enamored with the idea of making it easy for folks to set up\na site on <a href=\"https://neocities.org/\">Neocities</a>, then power them up with IndieWeb\nbuilding blocks to let them use existing tools. The GHOST PARTY site above is\nan example of that (<a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2018/03/12/micropub-for-a-static-neocities-website/\">nitty-gritties Neocities details here</a>.</p>\n<ul><li>prism-dirt - <em>A micropub endpoint for Neocities sites??</em> - this provided the\nactual Micropub support for the GHOST PARTY\nsite. (<a href=\"https://git.schmarty.net/schmarty/prism-dirt\">prism-dirt source code archive</a>)</li>\n<li>sapphire-sulky-clover - looks like the start of me making a more generic\nMicropub endpoint with the goal of encouraging others to remix it for their\nown Neocities cites.</li>\n</ul><p>What\u2019s that? I mentioned Micropub but never explained it??? Whew. Well,\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Micropub\">Micropub</a> is a protocol for posting, updating,\nand deleting content from your site. It uses IndieAuth to verify that you are\nallowed to do the posting / updating / deleting. I, uh, hope that helps?</p>\n<h2>Remixes of other people\u2019s stuff</h2>\n<ul><li>outrageous-coral - <em>Traces bitmap images of crease patterns to create a cuttable SVG file</em>.\nBy <a href=\"https://tifftseng.com/\">Dr. Tiffany Tseng</a>. Seems really cool for\npapercraft and patterns for sewing!</li>\n<li>lemon-spark-fairy - A demo using P5.js and <a href=\"https://github.com/googlecreativelab/creatability-components\">googlecreativelab/creatability-components</a>\nto do some kind of nose-tracking. Probably a demo someone sent me that I\nremixed in order to hang on to a copy.</li>\n<li>rich-tuna - <em>An example IndieWeb website using my micropub-endpoint library</em>.\nAn building block for making IndieWeb-powered sites on Glitch by <a href=\"https://grant.codes/\">grant.codes</a>.\n<ul><li>elite-cornet-1 - <em>An example IndieWeb website using my postr library.</em> Is\nanother Grant project. Part of his impressive <a href=\"https://postrchild.com/\">PostrChild</a>\nset of IndieWeb / Micropub tools!</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li>fantasy-slime - <em>I tweet new blog posts for qubyte.codes. I check for them when a webhook is called by netlify.</em>\nAnother tool for someone to POSSE posts out from their own site. Can you tell\nI flirted with becoming a collector of IndieWeb-related projects on Glitch?</li>\n<li>bejewled-burly-penguin - A proof-of-concept for running a PHP app on Glitch!</li>\n<li>outrageous-wooded-octagon - At XOXO 2024 the <a href=\"https://octothorp.es/\">octothorp.es</a>\nfolks published this as an example project. Octothorpes kind of strik me like\na webring meets decentralized forums with an alternate reality version of\nWebmentions.</li>\n<li>wise-broad-microraptor - <em>A WebSocket starter app using the ws node.js library.</em>\nI think websockets are magic so I collect people\u2019s projects for using them\nyet have only used them in a couple of projects! Scandal!</li>\n<li>juniper-magic-bream - <em>This is a basic example of AR camera using aframe-ar with experimental browsers for ARKit and ARCore.</em>\nSpeaking of magic! <a href=\"https://aframe.io/\">A-Frame</a> is so dang cool. I really\nought to make a project with it someday!</li>\n</ul><p>There were a few others, but I decided they were not worth keeping or mentioning\nhere.</p>\n<h2>Are you still there?</h2>\n<p>Hahaha, wow, okay, I didn\u2019t expect to have so much to say about so many of these\nprojects. Most of them weren\u2019t mine. Of those that were mine, most of those were\nonly experiments. By the time of the Glitch shutdown announcement, all but one\nof my few active projects that started on Glitch had already been moved to other\nhosting.</p>\n<p>But I think that even this small realization, and this small collection of\nprojects, hints at the magnitude of what the web is losing with the shutdown of\nGlitch project hosting.</p>\n<p>Glitch made it possible to start making \u201creal\u201d apps <em>on the web</em>, right away,\nwith no credit card requirement and no need to install a bunch of tools on your\nown computer.</p>\n<p>With the remix system, you never had to start from a blank page. You could take\na working example, make it yours, learn how it works, and change it as you like.\nAs you did more, you learned more. As you learned more, you were capable of\ndoing more.</p>\n<p>And if you got stuck? The Glitch editor, right in your browser, allowed live\ncollaboration! For a time there was even an ask-for-help feature where a\nstranger could come and help you with your project! And you could thank them\nin a way that showed up on their community profile!</p>\n<p>As a long-time IndieWeb contributor, I\u2019m well aware that the IndieWeb\ncommunity has a perception of being exclusively \u201cfor developers\u201d. While I didn\u2019t\nhave the resources to make it happen, I had <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/User:Martymcgui.re/IndieWeb-Sandbox#Onboarding_Brainstorming\">big hopes that Glitch could be a\nway to get a fully-functional IndieWeb site</a>,\nwith no code required to get started, but everything open and <em>available</em> as you\nlearned and leveled up. I don\u2019t think the thing I was dreaming of could be\npossible anywhere <em>but</em> Glitch.</p>\n<p>Clearly I have a major soft spot in my heart for Glitch. It took real\nthoughtfulness and care to build a platform to support a powerful learning\ncommunity with no BS enterprise upsells. I know it wasn\u2019t without its issues,\nbut I think it\u2019s safe to say that the world was much better with Glitch, and\nwill be poorer without it.</p>\n<p>My congratulations and thanks (and condolences) to all the folks that made Glitch possible.</p>\n<p>Ok. I\u2019m not crying, you\u2019re crying.</p>\n<p>Shut up!</p>\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/80/17/24/ac/89bb53053cb8e0f7623c1845df6f366cdd3dd70f0ebf0cffaf5fdcd1.png\">\n\t\t<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/80/17/24/ac/89bb53053cb8e0f7623c1845df6f366cdd3dd70f0ebf0cffaf5fdcd1.png\" alt=\"screenshot of my Glitch profile's Your Project page listing my archived projects, discussed above.\" /></a>\n\tSee you, space cowboy \ud83d\udc1f\ud83d\udc1f"
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Link: Behind the Underwater Scenes of “Final Reckoning”
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"html": "<blockquote>\n <h2><a href=\"https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/mission-impossible-8-how-they-shot-underwater-submarine-1235130251/\"></a></h2>\n\n <p>\u201cThe big breakthrough on this movie was I got in the water,\u201d said McQuarrie. \u201cWhat happens normally when you\u2019re directing an underwater sequence is you are above water, and you\u2019re talking to an assistant director, who\u2019s on a microphone, talking to everybody underwater, so you\u2019re directing through mediaries.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>Not only did the \u201cM:I\u201d team increase the number of underwater shoot days from ten on \u201cRogue\u201d to 22 on \u201cFinal Reckoning,\u201d but McQuarrie\u2019s learning to scuba-dive so he could direct underwater meant going from six to 22 setups a day.</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I can\u2019t say <em>Final Reckoning</em> is my favorite of the <em>Mission: Impossible</em> <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/movies\">#movies</a>, but I enjoyed it very much and the underwater submarine scenes not only loom large in my appreciate for this film, but stand out among all of the jaw-dropping set pieces of the franchise. Learning more about how the M:I wizards built and shot this never-been-done-before set only enhances the experience.</p>",
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A handy note for future-me or any other WordPress plugin developers:
If you need a plugin admin link that performs a download (e.g. a CSV file), you will need to use a hook that is called earlier in the process, before WP sends HTTP headers/content to the browser.
With a typical plugin admin page that displays content, I would use:
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'foo_add_menu' );
Then in function foo_add_menu(), I would use add_menu_page like:
// my example is OO, so $this points to the object and calls the index() method
add_menu_page(
'Plugin Page Title',
'Plugin Menu Title',
'edit_posts',
$this->plugin_name . '_index',
[$this, 'index'],
''
);
If you try to do this with a method that starts a download, you will get errors like “Cannot modify header information.” This StackOverflow answer pointed me in the direction of the load-page hook to solve that.
That documentation is a bit slim, but what I figured out was add_menu_page() returns a hook name. You can take that hook name, prefix “load-”, and use the resulting string as the hook name in an add_action().
In my example above, let’s say the plugin name is “foo_plugin” and replace “index” with “download”. The resulting hook name would be:
load-admin_page_foo_plugin_download
Then I can use:
add_action( 'load-admin_page_foo_plugin_download', 'download' );
(Be careful with the hyphen vs underscores in that)
Finally, within the download() class method, I can safely modify HTTP headers to start a download:
header('Content-type: text/csv; charset=utf8');
// other headers and content...
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Laying with the Dogs
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Scheduled to get my pacemaker generator replaced soon. Here’s hoping the new one looks like Stark’s arc reactor.
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